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Karl Schleicher

Karl Schleicher
Senior Research Fellow
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The University of Texas at Austin
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Austin, Texas 78713-8924

Research Interests

Curation of a non-proprietary seismic library for research, testing, software demontration, and training end users.

Practical development, implementation, and commercialization of seismic processing technology.

Education

B.S. Mathematics, University of Houston, 1974

M.S. Management – Operations Research, University of Texas at Dallas, 1988

Professional History

Geophysicist, Navigation Processing Manager, Advanced Technology Group Manager, Geophysical Services Inc., 1978-1989

Senior Research Geophysicist, Halliburton Geophysical Services, Western Geophysical, 1989-1996

Director Research, Geophysical Development Corporation, 1996-2001

Research Project Manager, PGS, 2001-2002

VP Technology AGS/PGS, 2002-2010

Selected Publications

Schleicher, K., Cramer, J., Gerrard, C., Jiao, J., Lin, S., Sosa, A., and Zhou, C., 2009, Model Building for tilted transverse anisotropic depth migration of the Crystal, Gulf of Mexico wide azimuth survey, 2010 EAGE, 2009 Subsalt Imaging Workshop, Cairo.

Sherwood, J.W.C., Sherwood, K., Tieman, H., and Schleicher, K., 2009, 3D prestack depth migration with examples from around the world, The Leading Edge 28, 1120-1127, 2008 SEG, 2008 EAGE.

Junru, J., Sonny, L., Zhou, C., Brandsberg-Dahl, S., Schleicher, K., and Tieman, H., 2009, Multi-parameter controlled automatic picking and variable smoothing for tomography with fast 3D beam prestack depth migration, SEG Expanded Abstracts, 3989-3993. 

Schleicher, K. L., 1997, Conjugate gradient DMO and other techniques that attenuate the 3-D acquisition footprint, 1997 SEG Summer Research Workshop.

Schleicher, K. and Kapoor, J., 1995, Building 3-D velocity models for imaging beneath salt structures, 1995 Gulf Cost SEG.

Meinardus, H.A. and Schleicher, K.L., 1995, 3-D time-variant dip moveout by the f-k method, in Hale, D., Ed., DMO processing: SEG, 362-373, Geophysics, 58, 1030-1041, 1991 SEG, 1992 CSEG, 1992 EAEG, 1992 Congresso Venezolano De Geophisica.

Black, J.L., Schleicher, K.L. and Zhang, L., 1995, True-amplitude imaging and dip moveout, in Hale, D., Ed. DMO processing: Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 448-467, Geophysics, 58, 47-66, 1989 GC SEG.

Schleicher, K.L., Kapoor, S.J., Albertin, U.K., Fowler, P.J. and Ward, L.J., 1995, 3-D depth migration of the Mahogany survey: A case history: Annual Meeting Abstracts, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 1165-1167.

Schleicher, K., Copeland, J., Noponen, I., and Dowell, D., 1993, Seismic processing on a parallel RISC computer, 1993 SEG summer workshop, 1993 Annual Meeting Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

Schleicher, K. and Copeland, J.T., 1993, Parallel one pass 3-D migration: Annual Meeting Abstracts, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 174-176.

Schleicher, K.L., Meinardus, H.A. and Snyder, F.F.C., 1993, WKBJ phase shift migration: 61st Mtg Eur Assoc. Expl. Geophys., Extended Abstracts, European Association of Geophysical Exploration.

Schleicher, K.L., Hall, D.A. and Hague, J.F., 1993, Parallel 3D migration on mainframe attached workstations: 61st Mtg Eur Assoc. Expl. Geophys., Extended Abstracts, European Association of Geophysical Exploration.

Meinardus, H., Schleicher, K., and Sudhakar, V., 1992, A processing sequence for turning wave imaging: Annual Meetng Abstract, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 988-991.

Menardus, H.A. and Schleicher K. and Brzostowski, M. A., 1992, FK DMO for depth variable velocity, 61st Mtg Eur Assoc. Expl. Geophys., Extended Abstracts, European Association of Geophysical Exploration, 230-231, 1992 Congresso Venezolano De Geoficica, 1991 SEG, 1992 CSEG.

Lee, H., Schleicher, K.L. and Meinardus, H., 1992, Refined Dix approach for seismic velocity: Annual Meeting Abstracts, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 1206-1209.

Brzostowski, M.A., Zakharaov, P.V., Mills, G.F. and Schleicher K.L., 1991, A comparative study of pre-salt imaging techniques in the pre-Caspian basin, Annual Meeting Abstracts, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 195-196. 1991 EAGE, 1991 CSEG.

Schleicher, K.L., Grieger, D.J., and Brzostowski, M.A., 1991, Migration velocity analysis: A comparison of two approaches, Annual Meeting Abstracts, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 1237-1238, 1991 Extended Abstracts, EAGE, 562-563, 1991 GC SEG.

Schleicher, K. and Brzostowski, M.,1990, Recent advances in seismic imaging, presented at the 1990 CSEG,1990 Congreso Venezolano De Geoficica, 1991 Australian SEG.

Egan, M., Schleicher, K., Meister, L., 1989, Recent advances in collecting and processing 3-D marine surveys, 1989 Brasileira de Geofisica.

Black, J.L. and Schleicher, K., 1989, Effect of irregular sampling on prestack DMO: Annual Meeting Abstracts, Society of Exploration Geophysicists 1144.

Schleicher, K., Grygier, D.J. and Iwamoto, T., 1988, Prestack migration for improved velocity analyses: Annual Meeting Abstracts, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 1998 CSEG.

McConnell , J.R., Potts, M.J., Schleicher, K.L., and Wason, C.B., 1986, Dispersive noise attenuation: Annual Meeting Abstracts, Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

Cotton, W.R., Schleicher, K.L., Ridyard, D., and Spinelli, J.J., 1985, Accuracy in marine streamer positioning: Annual Meeting Abstracts, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 1986 GC SEG.

Potts, M., Schleicher, K., Wason, C., and Ellender, S., 1982, Prestack wavelet deconvolution: Annual Meeting Abstracts, Society of Exploration Geophysicists and 1983 CSEG, 1983 Midwest SEG.


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